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Practical ways to live better on less.
1. Stay organized. Having a clearly organized game plan & budget will help prevent overspending. Write down who you need to buy for, your target price range, and gift ideas at least several weeks in advance. This will help keep you on budget.
2. Skip office grab bags/Secret Santas. There is no need to join every single holiday grab bag. Only exchange gifts with close family and friends to cut down drastically on holiday shopping expenses.
3. Shop on Black Friday. Yes, the stores can be hectic, however, you will benefit with major discounts. Search through all the ads and mark down which items are on your holiday shopping list. Don't buy just because an item is on sale – buy only items on your list!
4. Shop online (but not for clothes) Many of the best deals, especially on media (books, movies, etc.) can be found online. Shopping online allows you to compare prices among multiple retailers. Clothing is one area where I would stick to traditional shopping, as it is hard to judge sizes, colors, and fabric from an internet picture.
5. Sign up for email clubs. After signing up for their list, many retail stores will send you special discounts and promotions.
6. Host potluck family gatherings– Don't waste your time and money making holiday dinners by yourself! Have everyone bring something to pass around! Saves money, time, and gives you the opportunity to try out new dishes.
7. Make your own craft ornaments and decor. I like to make my own projects using random materials. One year, I took a handful of the colorful, beautiful sea glass I found in Maine and turned it into a beautiful ornament (using a clear ornament from Michael's). Look into sites like Pinterest for inspiration.
8. Put your credit card away. Hide your credit card. Pay for all your gifts in cash. If you can't pay in cash, then you need to cut back. It's as simple as that! Credit cards tempt you to spend more because you can't actually see the money. Not to mention, you will also suffer later on with enormous interest rates and years of monthly payments.
9. Shop garage sales/thrift shops. Rummage & garage sales and thrift shops carry a large stock of holiday merchandise, many offered at a 70-80% discount off traditional retail stores.
10. Wait to buy holiday decor until after the holidays. Sure you won't be able to use them this year, but next year you will be loaded with new stuff! It's always exciting to find new items in your storage next year. Not to mention the awesome savings (often up to 80%) that you will enjoy by waiting.
11. Cut out extra gifts. You don't need to exchange gifts with every friend, neighbor, and co-worker. Keep it simple.
12. Have a family grab bag as opposed to single gifts. In my family, we pick one family member to shop for by drawing names. Buying a gift for only one person saves you money, and also allows you to focus all your attention on one person. Take out the stress and time involved with shopping for multiple family members. Great idea for large families!
13. Send out free e cards. Most people toss out cards after the holiday season. Save yourself some money and send cute e cards. I love 123 greetings – there are hundreds of different styles available which you can personalize to suit your style.
14. Eat before you shop. It sounds silly but this little tactic can save you a tremendous amount of money, especially if you make multiple shopping trips. Eating before you head out with help you resist expensive restaurant stops. Another money saving tip: pack healthy snacks in your purse or glove compartment to satisfy your hunger until you get home.
15. Make homemade gifts. Thoughtful, creative gifts show that you care, and also save you money.
16. Purchase LED lights. These energy saving bulbs enable you to save up to 80% on your holiday electric bills. The small upfront cost will pay off by the end of the holiday season.
17. Find free festivities near you. Many towns offer their own tree lighting ceremonies and festivals, which offer opportunities for fun without a price tag. Check your local newspapers and Chamber of Commerce sites for upcoming events.
18. Lace up your ice skates. Here's one budget-friendly activity that gets everyone into the holiday spirit. Find a local pond or skate at your city rink. Bring your own skates to save on the rental free. Many city rinks only charge for skate rentals.
19. Host a holiday movie marathon. The best frugal activity: watching the countless Christmas themed movies that air each season! I love ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas and Hallmark channel's Countdown to Christmas, which includes a full month of holiday made for TV movies. There's nothing like these festive, feel-good movies to get you into the holiday spirit.
20. Don't overspend on wrapping supplies. Go buy your wrapping paper, gift bags, bows, and name tags at a dollar store. Dollar Tree is tops in my opinion – plenty of attractive styles & everything is actually $1, compared to other "dollar stores." Don't waste too much money on wrapping supplies that end up in the trash.
21. Check Groupon & Living Social. Not only can you find great deals on gifts, you can also find discounted deals on festive, local events.
22. Bake your own holiday treats. Get creative by trying out new delicious holiday treat recipes. These homemade delights are healthier and cheaper than store & bakery bought treats. Whole Foods Market offers plenty of healthier versions of your traditional favorites – check the Whole Foods website for ideas.
23. Get a seasonal job. Every mall and retail store is looking for extra help over the holiday season. Use the extra money you make for holiday gifts and decor, without digging into your regular paycheck/savings.
24. Consider a more budget friendly road trip for holiday travel. Road travel comes in at about a quarter of the price of air travel. Plus, you can bring as much luggage as you want with no extra fees.
25. Turn off your holiday lights before bed. Don't make the mistake of leaving your house lights on all night. I see a lot of people engage in this unnecessary waste of electricity.
26. Attend local concerts & play productions. Local productions of holiday favorites like "A Christmas Carol" and "The Nutcracker" are sure to be at least 50% cheaper than big city productions. There may be no big names, however, the festive spirit is still there!
27. Use your holiday lights over regular lights at night. Your LED lit Christmas tree and holiday decor will light up your living room without having to turn on your regular lights. This will balance out your energy bill during the season. Plus, what better way to enjoy a festive movie than sitting next to a beautiful Christmas tree?!
28. Check out free holiday movies, CD's, and books at your local library. Most people forget to consider the ultimate source of free stuff…the library! Great collection of festive movies (some libraries even stock Blu-rays now!). You can also find holiday CD's and novels. Author Debbie Macomber has a nice selection of Christmas themed novels.
29. Shop for electronic deals on Cyber Monday. Amazon always offers fantastic movie, book, and music deals, both for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
30. See if your local library participates in Freegal. Freegal is a free music downloading program. I get most of my holiday music courtesy of this program.
31. If shipping gifts, keep in mind that postage costs rise dramatically the heavier/bigger your package. Stick to smaller gifts for out of town relatives.
32. Shop at the dollar store for your pets. They won't know the difference! You may be surprised at the nice collection of squeaker toys, tug toys, and cat toys found at your local dollar store.
33. Shop for Secret Santa gifts on Black Friday. They won't know that you got their $25 gift for only $10.
34. Skip the holiday candies. No need to have tempting, expensive candy lying around the house all season long. Give your wallet and body a break!
35. Bring your own hot drinks while shopping. Fill up you hot chocolate, tea, or coffee in a cute reusable mug for all your shopping and activities. Target carries a wide variety of unique designs.
36. Build a snowman. Snow coming to your town? Get out there and build a snowman. It's free, fun, and works as a great seasonal stress-buster!
37. Record holiday specials and movies on TV. No need to spend all your money buying movies. If you have a DVR, tape your favorite movies. If you don't, schedule a live viewing party with your friends/family.
38. Create a holiday wish list with items you need. Many online retailers enable you to create wish lists. Tell your friends and families what you need, instead of getting some random, unusable product.
39. Take price tags off all gifts. Stress less without feeling the need to spend a certain figure. Leave it up to your recipients to guess the price, and drop those who expect expensive gifts!
40. Condense your shopping trips into as few as possible. Save money on gas by organizing your holiday shopping adventures onto the same date.
41. Organize pre-holiday themed parties as opposed to paying for pricey events. Wouldn't you rather spend the time with loved ones versus strangers? Parties are cheaper, more festive, and more personal than paid attractions.
42. Don't fall for every retail store sale. Department stores tend to offer a different sale every day as it gets closer to the holiday season. Stick to what's on your list!
43. Go caroling with friends. Or find local caroling groups putting on events in your area. Caroling is a fun free event which gets you into the holiday mood! Not fond of singing? Find churches and choir groups in your area putting on free holiday concerts.
44. Save your candy canes each year. I don't eat candy canes, however, I like to decorate my tree with them. I save them each year to reuse- no worry about the expiration date since I don't intend on consuming them!
45. Make up your own festive, free holiday traditions . Creating your own personal, free yearly events often creates the most lasting memories. Whether it is a family outing to an ice rink, an all night movie marathon, or a cookie baking day, the options for budget-friendly fun are endless!
46. Re-gift items. There is nothing wrong with re-gifting unneeded/unwanted items for someone else. Just because you didn't like the item, doesn't mean it won't make another person's day!
47. Open a Christmas Club Account. These handy bank accounts let you deposit some of your money into a separate account, which can be accessed over the holidays. How's that for stress free shopping?!
48. Buy sensible gifts that will be useful all year. Avoid giving spouses & family members holiday decor that gets put away after the season. Gifts that can be enjoyed all year are always a better value.
49. Skip trendy gifts. Avoid clothing and other trendy gifts, which will lose their appeal over time.
50. Volunteer in your town . Give the best gift of all – service to those in need! Take the time to give those struggling the gift of a great Christmas!
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The Motueka police station is located at 66-68 High Street, Motueka (opposite Inglis Street), and is staffed by 22 staff who cover an area from Dominion Road just before Mapua, to Woodstock in the Motueka Valley, to the top of the Takaka Hill and up to Seperation Point in the Abel Tasman National Park.
Of these 22 staff there are 2 CIB Detectives, 2 management staff, 2 traffic dedicated staff, as well as 2 community constables, a youth aid officer and a heavy vehicle inspector. The remainder do the 24-hour frontline policing.
We are very fortunate to have a dedicated team who take pride in living in a relatively safe area and we all strive to keep it as crime free as possible. This is proven in our station clearance rates (solving crime) which are one of the highest in New Zealand at almost 60% of all reported crime solved.
While fortunate to live in such a trouble free area, there are still dishonest people who will take any given opportunity to steal - so please don't leave valuables on view in your vehicles or give a thief an easy target. Please remember to allow time for your journey and also that a lot of tourists visit our area and they aren't familiar with the roads.
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And we also encourage you to phone us as soon as you see something amiss. So often we get reports of things far too late and can't do much about it. You can phone any time day/night. If the station is unattended because the staff are out, the answerphone message gives you the option of being transferred to the Nelson police who can contact the Motueka staff by radio immediately.
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It is great that the days are getting longer and the frosts are getting less severe. Over the last 2 weeks there have been several incidents and accidents involving vehicles and poor driving.
An unlocked car was stolen from a driveway in Motueka at night and an intoxicated local youth was located in it a short while later. Another driver was apprehended after doing a prolonged skid - he had been drinking alcohol and refused a blood sample.
Both people now have a court appearance as a result. They will be disqualified from driving for a minimum of 6 months. If they get caught driving whilst disqualified the car they are driving will be impounded for 28 days, regardless of who owns it, and they will be off to court again.
It will also cost more than $300 to get the car out of the impound yard after the 28 days and they will receive a longer period of disqualification and a fine or community work. The message is here is that the consequences will be significant!
The unlocked car was the third that owner has had stolen and all had been left unlocked. Please make sure your car is locked, even if it is up your driveway. Unfortunately thieves don't respect your property boundaries but if you make sure all your gear is secure you will make life a lot harder for them.
A car was hit from behind, luckily with no major injury and a local youth was warned after skidding on a wet road with a car load of friends. Either of these incidents could have turned out very differently.
Nobody leaves home thinking "I'm going to have a crash today", but because they make a bad judgement, get frustrated and overtake, drink alcohol and drive or go to fast for the conditions they put themselves and other road users at risk.
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Hopping on a bus rather than waiting around for someone to take you to school, to the game, or over to your friend's house lets you be independent. But with that independence comes some responsibilities.
Following the rules makes a difference for everybody on the bus. We don't mean them to be downers–but we do mean them. Love your bus!
Leave no artifacts. Penalties for tagging buses or bus property are severe and could require you to pay for damages. Likewise for other kinds of vandalism.
Keep it clean. Always take your own litter off the bus. And you already know it– eating, drinking, and smoking on the bus are against the law.
Move your seat. Seniors and people with disabilities need that seat more than you do…and it's appreciated.
Keep your cool. Pushing and fighting don't belong on the bus. And remember you're not outside–so save any kind of "loud" for somewhere else. Let everybody ride in peace.
Turn down noise pollution. Wear headphones–it's the only way you're allowed to play your music on the bus. And check your headphone volume so other riders can't hear your tunes.
Pay what you owe. It's not a free ride…pay your $1.05 or tag your Clipper card.
Listen up. The bus operator is in charge. So when you are asked to do something, you need to do it.
Final destination. Disruptive riders will be asked to leave the bus by the bus operator, who may, if necessary, be assisted by an AC Transit supervisor or a county sheriff.
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My fave so-called mature cartoon is Daria . The show debuted in Singapore just this year and I loved it right from the start . And , of course , my fave character is Daria herself .
She talks "monotonously" but she sure delievers fine lines (Let's go Daria !). So , if you wanna know more about this absolutely fun show , check out the links !
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I learned about this back in school. It has come in handy for balancing compositions, even if it is far from exhaustive.
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Calendar 2014
I had long plannend a calendar and finally got around: you can get the 2014 calendar on my deviantArt account. For lack of private paintings across all categories, it is themed around my world Genius Loci.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Terra Superior Characters
Two of the characters I did for the recently published Terra Superior supplement of the NOVA rpg http://www.nova-rpg.de/
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Radseri Spiritfriend
A character illustration oo sorts - Radseri is the guy happily floating there held by the spirit's tentacle/tail-thingy. It's for my world Genius Loci, whose development you can see on my worldbuilding blog starmakersgaze.blogspot.com.
I made the tail segments for the two larger spirits in Sculptris and painted largely in Painter.
I made the tail segments for the two larger spirits in Sculptris and painted largely in Painter.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
The eastern path
This started as a rather random idea developed from a few nature photos I liked, but I quickly developed some narrative and left my comfort zone with all the birds.
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Saturday, January 26, 2013
Carte du Melronné
I came up with this while testing the new mapmaking method I recently worked with, and also took it as an opportunity to practise some French. I'm thinking about giving it up for adoption, so maybe someone could invent an actual backstory for it.
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Map creation V
My map goes along for a while. Every now and then I add details; I place the capitals (various maps use stars, squares, circles, castles etc to indicate them. I use bordered circles by dotting them with a full-opacity brush and choosing Stroke in the Layer effects menu in Photoshop). I decide I want islands and soon despair because creating them with the lasso is tedious and provides ugly, repetetive results. I resolve the matter as follows (this should have been done much, much earlier, so make sure you do this step as one of the first):
In a new file in Photoshop, I choose Render>Clouds, then Render>Difference Clouds several times. Then on a Levels adjustment layer I push the sliders until my "clouds" are only black and white (could also be done with a Posterize layer, set to 2 levels). Ta-dah, these will be my coastline and islands! I cut, paste, transform and rearrange to my heart's content, erasing the water (I still have a file with the water on a separate layer) or adding to the landmass as I see fit. Now the map is much prettier. I'll also try to find a similar solution for rivers.
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Is Local Government Keeping Pace with Digital Expectations?
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As citizen expectations for online services continue to rise, 95 percent of the local government leaders who participated in a nationwide survey believe they have the responsibility to keep pace with their citizens' digital habits --- up one percent from last year. The results of the second annual"What's Next in Digital Communications for Local Government" survey, released today by the government website experts at Vision Internet, reveal that local government leaders are increasingly looking at citizens as "customers" who deserve the best service they can deliver.
"More people are accessing everything via mobile technology and apps. They want to pay a bill with two taps on their phone," noted one survey participant. "People are losing patience with local governments that are not making services accessible and easy to use."
"Residents and the community are using digital platforms more than ever; keeping pace with that technology is essential to reach those individuals where they are most active and attentive," said another.
Local officials from more than 140 municipal and county government agencies, with populations of less than 10,000 to nearly one million, assessed the current state of digital communications and projected future trends in the December 2015 online survey. A copy of the survey report and infographic are now available for download at www.visioninternet.com/whatsnextsurvey.
Echoing last year's survey, the majority of 2015 local government participants described their agency website as "integral to their overall communications and public service strategy," with 97 percent responding that it was either "essential" or "important." Yet only 34 percent of respondents believe their website is "highly effective" today, while 78 percent predicted it would be highly effective by 2020, which most likely explains why "website upgrade" was the top digital priority identified by survey respondents for 2016.
A widespread challenge surfaced when participants rated how well their website serves their community in terms of "allowing visitors to conduct business online." Only 4 percent gave an "outstanding" rating, while 21 percent said their website was "below average" or "poor." Three-quarters said their website was "average" or "good" in delivering online services.
Other highlights of the 2015 study include:
- More than 91 percent of respondents predict that mobile government will be "essential" or "important" to their agency within the next 5 years.
- The majority (56%) of respondents track and analyze their digital website metrics at least once a month, with 4 out of 5 using the analytics to update their homepages.
- While guidelines and mandates to remove barriers that prevent interaction with or access to websites by people with disabilities increasingly are being enforced at the local level, 89 percent of respondents had moderate, weak or no knowledge of Federal web accessibility requirements.
"Website accessibility promises to be a big focus for local government leaders this year," said Ashley Fruechting, Vision Internet's senior director of strategic initiatives, "Just as poorly designed buildings can prevent citizens with disabilities from entering, poorly designed websites can create unnecessary barriers as well. Sharing best practices on how to eliminate these barriers is a key objective for our Vision team this year."
The increasing importance of social media to local government operations showed the most significant year-over-year change, with a 10 percent jump in respondents who said it was "already having a significant impact" on local government operations -- to 92 percent from 82 percent. Nearly all respondents agreed it would have a significant impact by 2020, yet only 42 percent of respondents felt their current social media presence was "highly effective."
Comparing views on effective channels for citizen communications today and tomorrow forecast an interesting shift. At the end of 2015, most respondents ranked e-mail as their most effective communications tool, followed by social media and news releases. A significant change was predicted for 2020, with social media jumping to the top "highly effective" spot, closely followed by agency website and SMS/Text.
The order of these 2020 predictions is in stark contrast to last year's results. While expectations for highly effective agency websites by 2020 remained unchanged at 78 percent, social media leapfrogged to 84 percent in the 2015 survey from 63 percent in 2014. And predictions of the growing importance of SMS/Text skyrocketed to a "highly effective" rating of 61 percent from 37 percent in last year's survey.
"Pervasive connectivity and the Internet of Things are creating smart cities that redefine the citizen experience," Fruechting said. "To effectively engage citizens day in and day out, local government agencies must provide information and functionality that citizens value. The good news from this year's survey is that local government leaders are increasingly embracing new tools and technologies to meet that challenge."
For information about Vision Internet's transformative government website technology, please call 888-263-8847 or visit visioninternet.com/inforequest.
About Vision
Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., Vision is a national leader in government website design, development and hosting with more than 700 government, non-profit and education clients in U.S. and Canadian communities with populations that range from less than 1,000 residents to more than 5 million. For more than 20 years, Vision has created cost-effective solutions that increase government efficiency, build transparency and promote interactive communications with citizens. The company's powerful, easy-to-use subscription-based content management system, visionLive™, keeps local government websites relevant and effective; and the new visionPulse™ community engagement platform enables local governments to gather feedback on important issues. In 2016 and 2017, Vision was named to Government Technology magazine's GovTech 100, a listing of leading companies developing innovative or disruptive offerings to improve or transform government. The company also was named a top 10 company serving local government by Engaging Local Government Leaders in its 2016 ELGL Choice Awards.


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Juba – The National Legislative Assembly will discuss the controversial national security bill which was returned to the house by the president, who declined to sign the bill.
The president's move follows concerns raised by local and international rights groups, Western countries, opposition political parties and members of his own ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) party.
Those who had walked out when the bill was being endorsed said they were not allowed time to debate and criticized powers given to national security to arrest and detain people.
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CEPO executive coordinator Edmund Yakani in a statement said the decision of returning the national security service bill to the parliament demonstrates the president's response to the public outcry on the controversial provisions of the bill.
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The executive coordinator pointed that when the parliament endorsed the bill last time, the quorum was not enough and they as MPs were not given time to study the bill.
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Assata Sharkur
New Nation South Sudan


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Sudan in the late 1980s
This podcast is the first part of a recording (part two) made on 25 August 2005 as part of the Oxfam Archive Oral History project and is an interview with Maurice Herson, Editor of Forced Migration Review and previously Deputy Humanitarian Director and Head of Humanitarian Programme Advisory Team at Oxfam. Maurice left Oxfam in December 2004 after nearly 17 years with Oxfam. He made a huge and lasting contribution during this time which was largely with the Emergencies (later Humanitarian) Department. Maurice had many interesting and challenging times with Oxfam including in the Sudan and in the Great Lakes crisis of the mid-1990s. The interview was carried out by John Magrath who has worked for Oxfam since 1985, in a variety of communications and research roles. He was Press Office Manager during the Great Lakes crisis.
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JM We're going to talk about Maurice's career and lessons learned and all sorts of interesting things. I first came across you when you were working in the Red Sea Province in Sudan. How did you get involved with Oxfam?
MH I'd been living in Sudan as a teacher and this was the time of the drought and the famine in the Horn of Africa and I'd got involved with some refugees from Ethiopia in the place where I was living in Eastern Sudan and then later got a job with Save the Children in Darfur. And I'd burnt myself out as lots of people do on their first kind of emergency job and I was back in this country and I was lorry driving, as it happened, and I heard Marcus Thompson on the radio talking about somewhere, I can't remember where, wrote a letter in and was invited to come and talk with somebody in Oxfam. And I thought I was coming to come on a talk and I got half way through the day and I was actually being interviewed for a job. And by the time I got home to where I was living in Canterbury that night somebody had rung up and told my girlfriend at the time that I was being offered the job. And since she didn't know that I was going for a job in Sudan it was all a bit irregular. Oxfam HR has moved on since then though maybe not as far as it might have done. Not good HR practice I have to say. And so I'd already lived three years in Sudan when I went back to work for Oxfam on the strength of a year with Save the Children doing food relief, and my knowledge of Sudan and Sudanese Arabic. And I went and lived for two and a half years in Port Sudan and working all over Red Sea Province in North East Sudan on what was at that time Oxfam's largest programme anywhere in the world. And largest office as well which was… I think it was some 70 people which is by today's standard moderate size. We have huge offices by comparison nowadays. But those were the days when although I was what was called a Relief Coordinator which was in charge of the whole programme which ran to several millions of pounds, I still used to do some of my own driving, change the wheels and do my own filing and all sorts of stuff whereas nowadays we've divided such things down into infinitely small, little gradations of tasks so you have logisticians and administrators and all sorts of things and I think that's one of the differences really from those days to these is that it was an unprofessional world in general and in Oxfam as well. We [have] professionalised ourselves quite a lot.
JM You came into it, presumably, just through this experience with SCF but with no kind of formal training in nutrition or what normally goes for relief operations. You were just a lorry driver basically.
MH Well, I was a bit more than just a lorry driver but no, you're right. I had no formal training. It was an unprofessionalised profession and nobody had MAs in Logistics or in Development Studies or something. Nowadays when you recruit people into the kind of posts that I took then there's no way you would have taken somebody who is as I was then; even less so than would Save the Children have taken me on because I had no experience when they took me on to do it. You know, I've always been a generalist and sort of made it up. And it was a kind of coming in through the back door in those days. Whereas nowadays, 20 years on, we've become, despite what job adverts say which is experience counts for more than qualifications, nevertheless there's an awful expectation that people will have all sorts of training. I'm not trained as a manager and I think that probably hasn't changed a lot. Oxfam still employs a lot of people as managers who are not trained in management in lots of different ways. I wasn't trained in administration, I wasn't trained in anything. I just came along and hacked it. As it happens, I think, we got away with it 'cos I think I did okay. But it was a risk and nobody had quantified or tried to - quantify's the wrong word - work out what that risk was. We needed somebody and I looked like I could do the job and I could make intelligent comments about the right things at interview and there I was suddenly running an enormous programme. Lots of staff, lots of responsibilities for which I had no training at all.
JM Tell us more about the programme. What was it that you were doing?
Food distribution programme and "post-cut monitoring" in Sudan
MH It was a programme that had been branded "Food for Recovery" because it was a rather unconventional food programme at the time, the idea being that many of the people in Red Sea Province were no longer starving, in desperate need of food, and by the conventions of the time, and still to some extent now, they didn't need food and therefore shouldn't have been getting it. But the argument had been made that since their livelihood was largely dependent on their animals which was probably slightly less true than we thought it was and animals [are] not like a crop where you plant one year and you've suddenly got a harvest and you're okay. Animals, herds of animals take a long time to recover. So there were these nice little charts showing if you started with three goats how long it took before you had whatever the viable number of goats was. And we were supporting people so that they didn't have to sell their young animals and could let them grow and mature and their herds would grow that much faster if they didn't have to sell the animals in order to buy grain. And the programme was terribly finely tuned. Much too finely tuned. Every little sub-group of people got a slightly different ration depending on some esoteric calculation that was partly based on nutritional statistics. [It] seemed very scientific but actually wasn't.
JM Just let me ask you a question about that because we seem to have moved back to that way of doing things a little bit in modern theory. Because there was all the criticism of mass food aid given willy nilly to everybody and we're now moving back to the concepts of safety nets which are much more individualised and every community gets something and the people in the communities [that] are identified to be particularly at risk get more and so on. You're saying this isn't a new concept?
MH Oh, it's not a new concept at all. I think what was wrong, if it was wrong, was that it was all too precise; it was pseudo-scientific. The programme was intended to run for another five years and I was employed to run it for the next two years and then either stay or hand it on to someone else. And I rapidly did two things. One was change from a very variable set of rations, from full ration down to a little bit, to basically three types. There was a big ration, a medium ration and a small ration. Like the three bears in Goldilocks really - in porridge. Because I didn't think we could be more sophisticated than that. We could say people need more or less but not to the degree which it had been defined before. And food aid is a fairly blunt tool and I think where we are now… we are trying to use it in a more sophisticated way but nevertheless it is still a blunt tool in as much as people need food to eat. We all need food to eat but the food that you give people to eat, they very often don't eat it. Sometimes because it's the wrong food, sometimes because they have other priorities and will sell it. And so the attempts to be more careful with what kind of food and how you distribute it and what sort of quantities and so on is a worthy attempt and is the right thing to do. I just think we were on the right track but trying to do it too subtly, if you like. And the other thing I did was I rapidly came to the conclusion that the food aid shouldn't go on for another five years. And I wrote a paper back to Oxfam House, which I'll come back to in a second, which caused a bit of a furore because we'd got funding [from] the World Food Programme and this was going to go on for another five years and suddenly the Programme Manager, me, said "No, I think we ought to stop it". And it resulted in a very interesting series of discussions and communications. But in the end I won the argument. I made the case and it was accepted. And we then spent the next year, year and a half, closing down the programme.
JM Who was your boss at the time that you had to persuade?
MH My boss in Oxfam House was Liz Gascoigne. But of course there was the Emergencies Unit as it was then that had an interest in this and that was Tony Vaux and Marcus Thompson. And in between I had my immediate manager in Port Sudan and then I had the Country Representative who was Mark Duffield. He's now quite famous in academic circles. And taken over from him was a very old Oxfamer called David De Pury who might be interesting for this archive as well. And there was also a man called Tim Foster who designed the programme; a very smart and very convincing person who didn't like the idea that his plan was being undermined and weighed in quite heavily. But we did a good and responsible job. What we did was we wound down the programme gently. We didn't say, alright, it's going to stop in three months. We actually spent three months planning it and then a long time telling people that we were going to do it and then quite a long time gradually winding it down, reducing the rations, the high ones down to the medium, the medium to low, the low ones phasing them out, sometimes keeping people on low rations for quite a long time while people who'd been on higher ones lost it completely. We did a very complex job over quite a long period of time and I feel very proud that we did that because World Food Programme, as soon as they saw the argument, that they wouldn't have to produce any more food, wanted to say right, cut off that, that'll be nice, good, save that money, save that food. And I spent a long time convincing them to do it the long, slow, responsible way. And I think that was the right thing to do. And I even persuaded Oxfam to go on paying me and some of our Sudanese staff so that after we'd stopped the distribution we could do what I call "post-cut monitoring" at the time which is to try and work out what was the effect on people of getting cut off from the food aid as though, if you like, to make a check that the decision was right. Not that I was sure that we'd be able to back track and get it reinstated if it turned out to be wrong but at least to go and look at it and talk to people about how we'd done it and whether they were surviving without it.
JM And what was the effect of that? Were people okay afterwards?
MH I think people were okay. I think the people were okay in two senses. One is they, like people in most parts of the world, plan their lives and the thing that we had enabled them to do was to plan their lives. During the food distribution we had said to them "every month or two months or whatever you'll get this much food for your community and it'll be divided up however you divide it up among your community". And so people, as far as the logistics allowed, could more or less depend on what they were getting. We did a reasonably good job or World Food Programme rather did a reasonably good job in fulfilling those promises. And we then said to people in six months, nine months, a year you will no longer get this food. And explained to people what our thinking was and heard their arguments about why it should continue longer. And some people said "Okay, that's fine. That's okay. We'll be okay." And it turned out that people, on the whole, had survived. I suppose the interesting thing is that since then, and that was mid-1990 we finally stopped that, there have been three more rounds of the same sort of thing in the same area because people have a chronic need rather than an acute need and I think we were right to stop it then. And I also think we did it reasonably well. I look back on that with a degree of satisfaction for having designed it well myself but also to have got Oxfam to do it well.
JM We must have had some excellent local staff to support you?
Local staff and gender dynamics in Sudan
MH We had some fantastic local staff. I mean there are some incredibly dedicated people. There were people who'd been in the programme for two or three years before I got there and I happen to know that at least one of them is still there. And what are we talking? We're talking 15 years later and the person I'm thinking of is a woman who in that society is very unlikely to be a public figure but has become one and during the time I was there she was one of the people who we promoted to becoming a team leader over some men which was almost unthinkable.
JM Who was that?
MH Her name is Fatma… I can't remember her other name. I can't remember her Father's name, which is the other half of her name. I have a very strong mental image of her. I've even got a picture of her downstairs. And we had some extraordinarily dedicated people. People who had to work with dilemmas that we didn't have to work with. You know I was an expatriate, I was an outsider, with an intense interest but not a base in the society that I was working in. I developed a kind of social base, a network of friends and I sort of belonged in a strange sort of way. But I didn't have the tribal interests and the power interests and the political interests that they had. And there were some people who took what were probably extraordinary risks for themselves in being very honest and straightforward in running a food programme in a responsible way rather than doing the other thing they might have done which is wheel and deal to get the best deal for their lot. And I'm sure that some of them had to do a lot of political work that, as far as I was concerned, was behind the scenes. Because they didn't want to compromise the work that they were doing but had to persuade the society they operated in politically that that was okay as well. And I'm sure that they did a huge amount that we outsiders were never aware of to enable us to do a good programme. Not perfect but good.
JM You mentioned that the food went to communities and, I suppose nowadays, we are very conscious of communities being divided and women particularly getting a bad deal. Had you got built into the programme looking at specific needs of women and girls?
MH Um. We could get into a very long thing about Beja society in the Red Sea Hills here. All of our teams were made up of a mixture of men and women because men can only talk to men and women can only talk to women. Well, that was the theory. In fact, as I said, we managed to make people like Fatma in the end team leaders who could develop the confidence to talk to men and I suppose many of the men had got used to us enough to accept that we had ways that we wanted to do things [and] accept talking to her. And those women were our eyes and our ears with the women. But the way that society is structured made it very, very difficult to have access to women in groups and in fact women don't often operate in groups in that society. And so many of the communities that we were dealing with are mobile and split up and we were delivering food to places where people weren't but they would come by and pick it up so… It's a very odd sense of community in a way. We were conscious of the need to consider gender dynamics as we'd put it nowadays. And, in fact, when I left I wrote a whole series of papers about the programme, the society and what we'd done and why and so on and one of them was about gender. It still exists on some common drive in Oxfam somewhere probably. And I'm not sure that today's gender advisers would see our analysis as having been terribly sophisticated but we certainly worked on it and thought about it and my assistant was a very intelligent woman, a Sudanese woman, who was very aware of gender issues and wasn't going to let a lot go by so she and I worked very closely together and I find it hard to remember details now but I'm sure I was very dependent on her. She wasn't a Sudanese woman from that area which made it more difficult actually but, anyway, I was very aware that I needed her support in getting things like that right. You know, you think oooh 20 years ago we were cave men and we didn't think about these things but we did. And, as I say I'm not sure that we were terribly sophisticated but I am sure that we thought about it and took it into consideration in our programming decisions, in our planning decisions, in our decisions about the way we organised ourselves and our work.
Communications were very difficult in the sense that we didn't have communication around town and we certainly didn't have communication out of town. So if we wanted to get a message to Oxfam House - you know, no mobile phones or satellites or anything like that - we used to have to get the message right and then go to the WFP office
MH So we'd go to the WFP office and wait till they had electricity when they would type on their defunct telex machine - this is the days of telexes before faxes - a punched tape which we would then take away and one of the staff would be taken down to the bus station at one o'clock in the morning to get on a bus to Khartoum which would arrive at about 10 o'clock at night so that was one day and then they would get up the next morning and try to find an office with electricity in Khartoum that could send the telex from the punched tape to Oxfam House. And then hang around until Oxfam House had deliberated over whatever the telex said and sent back a message which would then arrive somewhere that had electricity and this person would pick it up and would then get on the bus at one o'clock in the morning to go back to Port Sudan and arrive at midnight back in Port Sudan and then come into the office. So it was a minimum of three days to have any communication with Oxfam House. And it was so liberating! You could actually get on with your job. You could make decisions. You could be responsible and accountable as we say nowadays. You had a job to do and you got on with it. Because you only got in touch with Oxfam House either with your regular reports, you know, weekly or monthly report that you'd send in with the pouch or else in desperation you would use this minimum of three days method because there was no other way of doing it. There were no phones out of Sudan at all really. If you went down to Khartoum it was unlikely you'd be able to get through yourself anyway. And it was very empowering. We had a job to do and we were expected to get on with it. Nowadays, of course, you've got not only your manager, and your manager's manager, and your manager's manager's manager but a load of advisers watching you on the email constantly and expecting answers to things and you're… ah, it's such a different position as a programme manager in the field now to what we were then and the technology has changed things so enormously.
JM And changed things for the worst?
MH Well, I'm sure that it's better in some ways in as much as there were times when I wanted advice and I couldn't get it and nowadays one wants advice and can get it. We had a very unfortunate incident where we were digging a well and there was a de-watering pump in the well and unfortunately the fumes overcame one of the well diggers who died and we really could have done with a bit of support over that because clearly it was an accident. Now whether there was negligence or not was the kind of thing that was arguable but we really needed help and support over that and we couldn't get it easily. So there are times when actually you're very pleased that you can lean on headquarters, if you like, but in other ways it was much better to be given the responsibility to do a job and to be able to get on with it without being watched all the time. And particularly in high level, high profile crises. You know, you talk to anybody who's in Bam or Aceh or somewhere and I'll bet they spend half of their time dealing with people who want to communicate with them over the e-mail and the mobile phones. So there's pros and cons but I have to say I liked it better then than I think I would like it now. And I was amazed going back to Darfur last year in the middle of 2004 to do a real-time evaluation of the programme that is being done there now in relation to the conflict in Darfur… everybody's got mobile phones. And last time I lived in Darfur in 1985/86… well, there wasn't a working phone in the whole area that I was working in. So, big changes from the technology in the ways that… it's more than ways that we work, it's the ways we relate to each other because of that, I think.
JM Yeah. You were talking earlier before we started the tape about how it was very physically a hard life. I don't know whether that was in Red Sea Province or whether that was in Darfur that you were talking about but for a white guy, even though you'd lived in Sudan for some years, it was a very difficult and strenuous life. Can you say a bit more about that?
Life in Sudan
MH People who know me are sick of me talking about how difficult Port Sudan was. It's the climate that's so difficult in that part of the world. We had a period in my first year there of 14 weeks when the temperature every day was over 50. And at night never went below 42. Never went below 42 all night. And it's a very humid environment as well and it is incredibly hard physically. As it happened, as you've said John, I'd lived for a few years in Sudan and I like Sudanese people, I speak Sudanese Arabic, I know my way around, I'm happy living on Sudanese food and so on. But people who didn't have that advantage I think found it even harder than I did. And there were very long days travelling in Landrovers over impossible… well, they're not roads they're just rocks that you travel over. Sometimes two, three days at a time to get somewhere. Two little anecdotes if I may. I remember one journey where we had 17 flat tyres in the space of a week and that was… you take the wheel off and then you have to take the tyre off the wheel and repair the inner tube and then get the tyre back on. And getting a heavy-duty tyre on a Landrover wheel with nothing but brute force is a game, you know. None of that fancy stuff you get in tyre changing shops. And the other anecdote, the Red Sea Programme is very big and very inaccessible and there were places we had been distributing food to for years literally that nobody had ever visited… had met people from there, had talked to people about it but nobody had been there and I decided it wasn't good enough. And besides I felt like going there. And I had the most amazing two week trip on a camel. Somebody set it up and we drove the Landrover as far as we could into a dry stream bed where we were met with guys on camels and we headed on up into the hills towards the Eritrean border. And it was absolutely fantastic and my back has never recovered.
MH My first job with Oxfam was in Sudan and one of the last things that I did, in one of my last roles in Oxfam, was to go and do the fashionable real-time evaluations that we're doing. And I think rightly by the way. That shouldn't be a put-down. I think it's exactly the right thing to be doing. But I went and I did a month in Darfur in July 2004 and then about three weeks in Chad on the other side of the border in September looking at the programmes we were doing. I have to say they were fairly sorry programmes in lots of ways. And it's rather easy for an old Sudan hand like me to look at the young sprogs who are coming in there, you know, never been to Sudan before, don't speak the language, don't understand bugger all about anything that's going on there and be critical about it. And I suppose I have to control the tendency to do that but the truth of it is that there's two sides to it. One is that Darfur is a very different place now than it was when I worked there for Save the Children in the mid 80s. It's a very different place. And we have to take cognisance of the fact that while I, in those days, was able to drive myself around Darfur on my own, nowadays it's a very different security environment. It's a very complex political place…
MH Sudan was formative for me in many ways in my relationship with Oxfam. I mean Darfur now is a very different place. It was a peaceful place although a difficult place when I was there in the 80s and now it's not a peaceful place and travel there is very difficult and we have a much more complex way of looking at the world which I think we've referred to in some of the other earlier bits of this conversation. And I think we really struggled to bed ourselves in, in order to produce a good programme. I'm talking about the operational programme rather than the advocacy programme. 'Cos there was an awful lot of undoubtedly valuable work at the UN and the Sudanese Government in one way or another or with DFID and so on. And I'm sure that's very valuable but when it came to going to a camp where Oxfam was committed to doing latrines for 40,000 people and was saying that's what it was doing but hadn't dug a single one several weeks in, you know… doesn't make you feel good. And I didn't feel good about it. I don't know whether I should be saying this on record but I wrote a very critical report which spent an awful long time whirring around nowhere and it's probably ended up in a safe somewhere stamped "confidential" because it sure didn't get out in anything like the form that I wrote it in. And I suppose that I was looking at it with a slightly jaded viewpoint maybe after these 17 years with Oxfam but also with what I have to be careful of which is my happy memories of Sudan and Darfur 15-20 years earlier which I know I mustn't do. But just seeing that, really, we were not hacking it after the fact that the humanitarian world and the humanitarian world in Oxfam has made leaps and bounds in doing more, growing in size, being more expert, having more strength of expertise and knowledge and specialist skills and so on. We were doing a lot worse job in Darfur than I think we used to do 15-20 years ago. And I suppose that's worrying. I shouldn't make that criticism of Oxfam overall but it is indicative of the fact that there are two things going on. One is our increasing sophistication, our understanding, our management techniques, our advisory skills, you know, all that sort of stuff on the one hand. And on the other hand there is this endless intractability of the real world where however good you are at livelihoods programmes or digging latrines or whatever, if you get somewhere that's in the midst of a really vicious civil war and with all the political complexities of Darfur as it is now, it's difficult. And somehow you frustrate yourself more by having all of that expertise that you can't deploy… almost. And it's much harder to be imaginative and think out of the box. You know when I was in Port Sudan, the Red Sea Hills, I would have ideas and people would come back and say "Oh, do you think that's a good idea" whereas nowadays you have an idea and there's somebody who's got a library to throw at your head about what you haven't thought of. So, that sounds like me being an old fart doesn't it really? But I do think we've got ourselves into a little bit of an overspecialised trap. And I've had this reflection in relation to, well I remember very specifically, in relation to the Bam programme in Iran after the earthquake there. When was that? Christmas 2003. Reflections on that were that we were sort of stuck in our expertise, you know… we had to have the health adviser and the gender adviser and the water adviser and the livelihood adviser and the shelter adviser and the logistics adviser and everything. And it kind of stopped us getting on with it in a way. So I think there's a real tension in there that I've watched Oxfam over the years try to resolve, not well enough maybe, but we're sort of digging ourselves into the pit… and not quite sure we know how to dig ourselves out of it. You know, I've left now. It's six…nine months on you know. Everybody knows these things and maybe, maybe we're getting somewhere. But I do feel that that has not been all that helpful in all circumstances. In some circumstances, yes, but we have to get out of this one size fits all. You know, if you employ advisers they all have to be on everything.
JM We're overloaded.
MH Yeah. I think we overload ourselves. And places where we really need to be simpler and sharper, we find it hard to be. We don't differentiate enough between those. And particularly the big, high-profile crises. If you went in there with a skimpy team you'd get criticised for it but maybe that's what you actually need to do. You know, I'm not saying something I wouldn't have said or haven't said in the Humanitarian Department before I left.
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Down on The Mall, George Eldridge of Doe's Eats Place in Little Rock sold tamales as fast as he could heat them up. Back in Arkansas, he said, the dish was a favorite of his one longtime customers, President-elect Bill Clinton.
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My sister in law is having babies. Twins, to be exact. We're all very excited. We were thrilled when we found out she was pregnant, ecstatic when we found out there were twins, and overjoyed when we found out she was having one of each. There is a Baby A is a girl, up high and to the right; Baby B is a boy, down low and to the left. A moves a lot, and B moves not so much. Turns out A likes to kick her brother...right in the head. Poor B. He must not move much because he's scared she'll kick him again. Now you know that's some teenaged angst in the making. This kid is going to hate his sister, and he'll never really understand why.
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API Documentation
The trunk version of the Avogadro documentation is available at http://avogadro.cc/api/dev/.
There are four current interfaces for extending Avogadro
- Engines – These are responsible for the overall style of a rendered molecule: balls and sticks, van der Waals spheres, protein ribbons, etc.
- Painters – These are responsible for "painting" graphics and text from engines and tools, either to the screen (the default OpenGL view) or to a file (e.g., POV-Ray output)
- Tools – These allow user interaction with the mouse, for rotating and translating the view, editing, etc.
- Extensions – These are user-level commands, like selecting atoms, running a force field, or interfacing with an external program.
As indicated in the diagram, a scripting interface in Python exists, offering
- A command-line terminal for interactive manipulation
- API exposure for engines, painters, tools, and extensions from scripting languages
- Embedding libavogadro into Python programs
- Running script files, for example to send a molecule to a cluster
Of course in many cases, the engine, painter, and tool interfaces are performance-sensitive. Users want a fast, responsive user interface. Consequently, most of this code will likely be written in C++. However, access will be provided in scripting languages for easy prototyping and for general use.
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Yes I know it's a terrible idea to put your emergency fund in equities. But what a shame it is to only get 1% in a high-yield savings account (which is what I do) rather than 14.5% in SPY (which is how much it went up over the last 12 months).
Anyone have the balls to put their entire emergency fund in a portfolio?
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Avram Iancu, the librarian who wants to become the first man in the world who crossed all the Danube by swimming without any special equipment, from the springs to the Black Sea, arrived in Galati on Monday.
The venturesome man from Petrosani had only few steps at that time, to fulfill his dream: one hundred and fifty kilometers to Sulina. Tired but enthusiastic, the 41-year athlete estimates he will finish his route on Thursday or Friday.
In Galati, the swimmer was welcomed with applauses and he gave autographs. Avram Iancu aims to cover all the 2,860 kilometers which Danube has until it flows into the Black Sea, without any neoprene costume. Even if he trained himself a lot, his attempt seems pure madness. He arrived on Monday at the milestone indicating only 151 kilometers to the destination:
Avram Iancu: "I am trying to establish a world premiere, to swim on the river without a protective suite. There have been a lot of dams, namely 65 dams: 50 dams in Germany, 12 in Austria and one in Slovakia, and two dams, the biggest ones, in Romania. I am very, very tired, I am exhausted. As you can see, I have no fat on me, I've seriously lost weight."
The venturesome from Petrosani, nicely welcomed in Romania after the first 2,000 km
No wonder that without a good physical trainer, the man's body could have fallen until now.
Iuliana Piscoi, physical trainer: "I am in charge with his relaxation, after the end of the program, with various massage methods and ointments, for joints, for muscles, special oils for relaxation. In the morning, every time before he enters into the water, we make the warming up of the body."
There are fans who accompanied him during the whole adventure started on June 20 in Germany. Some of them were on the shore, others were on the water, in kayaks.
"I don't know him personally, I met him only now in person, but I am watching him from Reghensburg. I can hardly wait him to reach the finish. He is an example and he's our pride" says a man.
Vali Rambu, rower: "I accompanied him right from the springs, from Donau Richingen, until up to Cazane, somewhere at the kilometer 980."
The librarian swims an average of 40 kilometers each day. His route is monitored and he sent posts on his Facebook page from each important point he reached.
Although he hoped that he will be able to cover all the route in two months, namely to finish it on August 20, Avram Iancu realized it's impossible. The weather was bad and the temperature was lower than he expected since he was in Germany.
Until he reached Romania, Avram Iancu passed through other nine countries and four capital cities, just exactly as the river. In Romania, he stopped in the most important places to rest and eat.
If things will go as he intended, Avram Iancu will reach Sulina on Thursday evening or on Friday. He is also the first Romanian who crossed the English Channel by swimming without a protective suite, last year.
Avram Iancu from Petrosani already has a lot of records. He is the first Romanian who succeeded to cross the English Channel only with his slips and helmet. The performance was achieved on August, 2016, after 18 hours of swimming. One year ago, in June, 2015, Avram Iancu swam in the Danube from Gropeni, Braila County, to Galati. He covered around 42 kilometers in 10 hours.


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Is there an interest for African telcos to buy DDU from radio vendors such as Ericsson, Alcatel, Huawei and others?
I was recently in Africa after a long absence of 2 years, and I was amazed to see that nothing had changed in the way multinational corporations are selling to local telecom providers. It is quite amazing for me that they still apply a percentage on the price of the equipment to cover their so-called "DDU costs". This leads to some awkward situations where the shipment of a switch costs| Services | 0 comments


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Last week MOVE4IDEAS attended IBM CONNECT 2016 and was exhibitor for the 1st time. We all had a fantastic week learning about new IBM projects, Speed Geeking and also exchanging with our peers.
IBM CONNECT was at the Hilton for the first time and it was a great place for the venue, many conference room and a very nice exhibition area.
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Thank you all for coming to our booth and connecting with us at Connect 2016! It was great speaking with you, to better understand your main challenges and see how AUDIT4MAIL could help you with these challenges.
Also Thank you to all of you who went to Jérôme's session : "Smooth Migration from IBM Domino to IBM Verse: The Vital Metrics you do need".
R2D2 went to a new galaxy
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Utopia: The Avant-Garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life.
David Ayers 10:01am Jul 13Utopia: The Avant-Garde, Modernism and (Im)possible Life.
Utopian hope and dystopian despair are characteristic features of Modernism and the avant-garde. Readings of the avant-garde have frequently sought to identify utopian moments coded in its works and activities as optimistic signs of a possible future social life, or as the attempt to preserve hope against the closure of an emergent dystopian present. In the fourth volume of the EAM series, European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, we aim to cast light on the history, theory and actuality of the utopian and dystopian strands which run through the European modernism and avant-garde from the late 19th to the 21st Century.
• how have modernism and the avant-garde responded to historical circumstance in mapping the form of possible futures for humanity?
• how have avant-garde and modernist works presented ideals of living as alternatives to the present?
• how have avant-gardists acted with or against the state to remodel human life or to resist the instrumental reduction of life by administration and industrialisation?
• how have theory and the avant-garde interacted and co-articulated each other in the projection of utopian/dystopian possibilities?
• does the avant-garde inevitably succumb to the domination of the real or do its workings achieve real or symbolic effects?
• is modernism the mirror of the modern or its utopian antithesis?
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Your child has taken the significant step from infants to primary school and into the first year of Learning Stage 2.
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Year 3 has been learning to create characters and write narratives that are entertaining and exciting. In the story 'Christina and the Dragon' the class was given an adapted orientation or beginning from one of Pamela Allen's books, 'Black Dog'. The children developed their own character, Dragon, by listing descriptive adjectives and adverbs to build his appearance, personality and behaviour.
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